On my way home from work.
A car, barely inches behind me abruptly screeches to a complete halt, and the driver seems to be muttering discontentedly and furiously honking his horn to vent out his frustration at me for indicating a signal before making a u-turn at a mere moment’s notice. I think he’d let out a curse. Guilt couple with heavy self-reprimand and a sigh of relief seeps through my being for managing to evade a possible mishap the fault and blame of which would be entirely mine to swallow.
Traffic is ironically easy on a Monday evening, I reach the apartment building, park my car at the garage, get out from the car and try to manually pull up a stuck power window at the front passenger seat at which point a security guard approaches and seeing my situation, immediately lends a helping hand.
Sometimes, just as we think we are hovering on the brink of moral decay of civilisation, blaming the perceived slow death of chivalry and we constantly tell ourselves to adapt our lives to this new changing condition, a little help come our way even at times when we least expect it, with this we have to quietly renew our faith and alter our point of view again…
The surroundings you are in now present a vast contrast to the four-wall partitioned workplace where a lone computer is your only loyal companion. But here it’s so actively buzzing with life – a neighbour is seen busily engaged in some painting work to give his place a new colour; kids playing games near the staircase, with birds characteristically and unfailingly churning out melodious sound together with the ever soothing and gentle evening breeze blowing a little awareness into your head, simultaneously adding doses of freshness and liveliness to the environment, you feel as if your spirit is being uplifted and a sense of belonging washes over you as you casually maneuver your steps to reach to the first floor of your apartment.
Despite the monotony and tediousness of a day spent at work, you think it’ s all worth it when at the end of the day, you get back home and in this instant being rejunevated and refreshed by all that is being laid before you.
At a moment’s notice, a little oasis of tranquility forms in your mind, permeating all over this temporarily disorganized space in your life, and the weariness is slowly and decisively fading away…
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